Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Add content regularly. Conversational style.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

These alternative platforms have, in turn, grabbed the attention of entrepreneurs who recognize the market vertical isn’t shrinking anytime soon. Not only that, they’ve started launching their own companies and platforms that tout innovative ways to help millenials get in on the action. Most recently, I came across Givvr.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In contrast, social networking sites drove a record number of clicks, up 20% over the prior year. Clearly there is a shift occurring in users'' behavior, as social networks continue to hone their product discovery and purchase capabilities. How do you see Brand and Commerce coinciding on social sites such as Pinterest?

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. You either need to rent space on someone else's telephony platform, or have your own. It works with any device.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2011

Google, they’ve cracked a nut here. With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. Now, there’s Google+. Holy cow is Google+ fast and responsive.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

“Social justice art and technology and the movement really melded for us. ” Using Google’s href="[link] persistent cloud anchors in ARCore, Mark users are able to create permanent images that can be viewed and modified through the company’s app. Even though it’s technology, it’s organic.”

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Big news in the social gaming sphere as major interactive gaming player Kabam announces the launch of The Godfather: Five Families out of beta and into commercial exclusively with Google+ Games. It’s some pretty major news at it signifies an interesting list of milestones in the social gaming industry: 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io We've created a social media platform which helps you meet new people, and we're also very focused on privacy, and don't sell your data, don't spy on you, but provide an environment where you can meet other people based on shared interests and shared locations.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Jobscience early today acquired Atomkeep in a move the company says was to help job seekers validate their social image over the various social networks to avoid mistaken identities from would be employers. ” Atomkeep was launched in 2008 and syncs users information on their social networks with online job boards.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place. We could still deliver applicants and deliver passive job seekers to a company, but we could also delivery applicants that already understood what the cultur of the company was, and be able to measure the kind of footprint people were making on a social network.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. Facebook. So why is this important for businesses?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. Advertising is great.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. We'll do a rev share with those platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

From tablets to smart phones to Google Glass , people are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to assist them in managing their lives. Data storage, hardware, and networking equipment are provided to the customer on a per-use basis by the IaaS vendor, who holds the equipment and is responsible for running, and maintaining it.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. We'll do a rev share with those platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

At the moment, Conolly heads the startups social media team in Egypt while Turdubaev looks after Russian countries and translation of the site. Most people now useFacebook- but it is a platform that is changing a lot since it floated on the stock market. TechZulu caught up with Conolly and this is what we learn. Why the name?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly The Importance of Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 17, 2012

Hallo social platform is nothing to snicker at. Although most people expect new applications like these to have some sort of in app social network of their own a lot fail short and most tend to fall back to simply Twitter or Facebook. The post Hallo | Just Say Hallo with Social Voice App appeared first on TechZulu.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. OTHER DEALS. Primarily targets SMBs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. Where do those videos get distribute?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25. DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. Lexicon AI is their new product, an intelligent, voice-based platform for lawyers, healthcare providers, and other professionals.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. As media morphed into individually packaged pieces of content across platforms, viewing media on the couch (lean back) quickly became the old model. What does that mean? Even more choices.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is the same with competing activity streams in various social networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD.,

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I would try a line like, “I know that some of you might be social media experts and others may be less deep on this particular area. If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room. But … watch out.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. Imagine a white canvas that allows you to create a mixture of any kind of media you want in one space. Give Us the Fast Pitch. Your goals, new products, new direction?

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